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Bruce Springsteen was on the climb to mega-stardom. After playing for nearly a year straight with the E Street Band on The River Tour, with the hit song “Hungry Heart” pumping out of speakers everywhere, he was ready to come home. But once he got there, thoughts of his past wouldn’t quit. Away from the crowds, visions of his childhood …

Katie RazzallCulture and Media Editor Getty Images Molly Lee is talking to me about the tales her aunt Nelle, known to the world as Harper Lee, would weave for her when she was a little girl. “She was just a great storyteller,” says the 77-year-old from her home in Alabama. That’s an understatement if the success of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-prize …

Scan the wall of Sardi’s, the restaurant and bar in midtown Manhattan that’s served as the watering hole for Broadway’s biggest names over the decades, and you’ll find caricatures of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II sitting side by side. The men are considered the most successful songwriting duo in the history of American theater, and were responsible for Oklahoma!, …

A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A photographer whose black and white images investigate poverty in America. Hahrie Han, Tommy Orange and Matt Black are among the 22 fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and …

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.” The MacArthur fellows receive a $800,000 prize paid out over five years that they can spend however they choose. The foundation selects fellows over the course of years and consider a wide range of recommendations. Fellows do …

Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an expert on the U.S. street drug supply. He’s been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with a “genius” grant for his work to understand the nation’s overdose crisis and to help reduce deaths. Pearson Ripley/Photo provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hide caption …

MacArthur Foundation Announces 2025 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners  The New York Times Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here’s who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list  NPR Meet this year’s MacArthur grant ‘geniuses’  The Washington Post MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer  Chicago Tribune This year’s MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius’ award winners hold a mirror up to our world  AP News Source link

The stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act, which was enacted in July, will trigger an exodus of deposits from traditional bank accounts into higher-yield stablecoins, according to the co-founder of Multicoin Capital. “The GENIUS Bill is the beginning of the end for banks’ ability to rip off their retail depositors with minimal interest,” Multicoin Capital’s co-founder and managing partner, Tushar Jain, posted to …

It’s one of those questions that seems obvious only in hindsight, like wondering why nobody put wheels on luggage until the 70s. For years, the tech world has been obsessed with cramming cameras and computers into eyeglasses, a form factor that is aesthetically sleek but functionally limited. The entire industry got so hung up on looking like Tony Stark that …

The big move by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy the chemicals business of oil giant Occidental Petroleum for nearly $10 billion is a double win for Berkshire, analysts say, in Buffett’s potential swan song deal before retiring at the end of December. The Oct. 2 deal is the first-ever Berkshire announcement that quotes incoming CEO Greg Abel and doesn’t …